Akash Verenkar
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Verenkar is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building high-performing, diverse teams that prioritize customer outcomes and measurable impact. He has led core cloud and data migration products at Google and Microsoft—including GKE Autopilot, Knative Eventing, Azure Database Migration Service, and Data Migration Assistant—driving large-scale migrations and production-grade serverless and stateful platforms. Known for fostering experimentation, psychological safety, and rapid learning, he scales teams from zero to dozens while shipping features that have migrated hundreds of thousands of databases and enabled thousands of live experiments. A hands-on manager, he also contributes to open-source testing infrastructure (notably enhancements to google/openhtf) to improve reliability and maintainability. Based in Kirkland, WA, he combines deep systems and product experience with a practical humility—he openly admits “I do not know” to unlock better solutions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Durgapur
English, Konkani, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
continuous-integration4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/openhtf
Jun 2017 - Oct 2022
The open-source hardware testing framework.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 36 reviews, 12 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure of the openhtf framework. They added new validator tests, fixed string equality validator issues, and added comprehensive tests for the measurements module. In addition to improving test coverage, the user also updated the setup configuration to prevent errors during deployments. These changes reflect a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the project.
testingopen-source-hardwarehardwaretesting-framework
glados-verma/openhtf
Jun 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:79 pushes, 44 branches in 7 years 10 months
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